Safety pocket for garments



June 1, 1948. J. J. KUBOVClK 2,442,415

SAFETY POCKET FOR GARMENTS 4 Filed March 29, 1946 h 9 i I l I I l I A? ll l I I I l 6 I I 6 1 1 7 l 8 l 9 l l l I Y I L INV EN TOR.

' c/DSEP LZKUBUYBIK ATTDRNE Patented June 1, 1948 UNITED STATES ATENTOFFICE SAFETY POCKET FOB GARMENTS Joseph J. Kubovcik, San Francisco,Calif. Application March 29, 1946, Serial No. 658,288

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a new and improved pocket for garments and hasparticular reference to a safety pocket that is provided with means forsecuring and protecting the contents placed therein.

The object of the present invention is to provide an especiallyconstructed pocket and to attach the same to an article of apparel suchas a coat or a vest and to form the pocket with a combinatlon of flapsthat will positively secure the contents placed therein and thus preventthe contents from getting lost or stolen from the pocket.

Another object of the invention is to provide apair of side flaps thatfold toward each other and are connected together at the central portionof the pocket and a top flap that folds over said flaps and upperportion of the pocket and is connected thereto by a conventional slidefastener.

A further object of the invention is the production of a safety pocketthat is simple in construc-.

tion, economical to manufacture and highly serviceable in use.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description:

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of the specification, andwherein for the purpose of illustration like numerals designate likeparts throughout the same,

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of the improved safety pocket withthe flaps being shown in their open positions;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front elevational view illustrating the insidelining of a garment showing the pocket in dotted lines and the safetyflaps in their closed positions; and

4 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 44 of Fig. 3, looking inthe direction of the arrows.

Referring in detail to the drawing wherein for the purpose ofillustration is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, thenumeral 6 designates the front wall of the pocket, the numeral l theback thereof, the said front and back being sewed together as at 8 and9, forming the side walls of the pocket. The said pocket is positionedon the inside of the garments lining l l as shown in Fig. 4, whichlining is slit as indicated at l2 and the upper front portion of saidpocket is sewed to said lining in proximity to said slit portion 12, asindicated at I3.

A pair of inwardly folding side flaps l4 and I are formed onto the backportion of the pocket and positioned above the upper extremity of thefront portion 6, said flaps being provided with conventional snapfasteners l6 and I1 respectively and are adapted to be held in a closedposition as shown in Fig. 3. The back portion of the pocket extendsabove the side flaps l4 and I5 and forms a central flap as indicated at18 in Fig. 1 5 and which is adapted to fold over said flaps l6 and It asshown in Figs. 3 and 4 and is held closed by a conventional slidefastener l9 closing the pocket opening 20.

From the foregoing description, taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawing, it will be obvious that when an article such as abill fold or envelope or other contents 2i, illustrated in dot and dashlines, is placed in the safety pocket, the two side flaps l4 and i5 canbe closed across the contents and the top flap l8 closed over said sideflaps thus positively securing the contents in the pocket and protectingthe same in an improved manner. The said safety pocket can be a directpart of the garment or made separately and easily attached thereto.

It is understood that the form of my invention herewith shown anddescribed is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and thatvarious changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement ofparts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of theinvention or the scope of the subjoined claim. v

Having thus described my invention, I claim: A safety pocket forgarments having in com 80 bination, a front wall and a back wall andVertical side walls, an opening at the upper portion of the pocket, thesaid back wall including in its construction a pair of side flapspositioned above said opening and adapted to fold across the same,

5 a snap fastener for securin the end portions of the flaps together, acentral fiap formed on the said back wall and positioned above the saidside flaps, the said central flap being adapted to fold over the saidside flaps and close the opening of 40 the pocket and a slide fastenerfor detachably securing the central flap to the front wall of thepocket.

JOSEPH J. KUBOVCIK.

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